You CAN store WORDS as CONSTANTS, but you have to delfine them... to my previous example storing 1860 at locations 5 and 6...

DATA @5,%01000100
DATA %00000111

can (according to the manual) also be written as...

DATA @5, WORD 1860

although personally I always use my original method.

However, you still need two individual byte operations to READ and WRITE.

Melanie